[PlutoIsAPlanet]

Microsoft can kick security vendors out the kernel, but they can't sell a product that uses APIs not accessible to other vendors.

[strombofulous]

Sure, but my question still stands - would this have happened if the EU had not made that ruling?

[Tuna-Fish]

Yes. There were kernel mode drivers before that ruling, it is essentially entirely irrelevant to this outage.

[mort96]

Probably